Motivational Quotes

Gratitude

Do you realize what this means? The fact of being alive... I still find it staggering that I am here at all.

- Leach, Christopher

Best Quotes about Gratitude

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people.

Syrus, Publilius

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

Faulkner, William

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

Dylan, Bob

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Stalin, Joseph

Our favorite attitude should be gratitude

Ziglar, Zig

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

10.

Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart -- a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water -- I accept with joy.

Bhagavad Gita

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Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

Christiane, Northrup

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Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -- it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

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Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.

Traherne, Thomas

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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

Bennett, William John

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Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

Hull, Bobby

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If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Clark, Frank A.

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These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger he will plunge through.

David Nicholls

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When the insects take over the world we hope they will remember, with gratitude, how we took them along on all our picnics.

Vaughan, Bill

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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Lowell, James Russell

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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Seneca

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When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.

Milloy, Courtland

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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Cicero

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Gratitude is the heart's memory.

Proverb, French

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The public have neither shame or gratitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

Dyke, Henry Van

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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I don't like it when people on the street say smile or cheer up. It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.

Cage, Nicolas

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There but for the grace of God go [I].

John Bradford

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Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

Caddy, Eileen

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Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him. -

Hendrick, George R.

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Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.

Charles E. Jefferson

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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.

Blum, Ralph H.

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Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

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See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Seneca

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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Demosthenes

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Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Gratitude is the doorman's payment.

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Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Borysenko, Joan

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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.

Josh Lieb

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Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.

Carter, Elizabeth